of Ihjmenoptcrous Insects of New Zealand. 475 



PUPIVORA. 



ICIINEUMONIDES. 



Ichneumon perjidiosus. (PL IV. fig. 5.) 

 ]\Iale. — Length 6 — 7 lines. Head and thorax black ; 

 abdomen red, with the apex black. Head : a ti-iangadar 

 yellow spot at the inner orbit of the eyes opposite the 

 anterior ocellus ; the clypens, mandibles and palpi ferru- 

 ginous, the later palest ; usually a minute ferruginous spot 

 on the scape in front, sometimes obsolete. Thorax : the 

 lateral margins of the prothorax, the scutellum, post- 

 scutellum, sometimes a spot also on the disk of the meso- 

 thorax, yellow or reddish-yellow ; two ovate yellow spots 

 beneath the wings; occasionally a reddish spot on the 

 metathorax in the enclosed horseshoe-shaped space at its 

 base ; wings slightly fidvo-hyaline, the nervures^ fuscous, 

 the stigma and nervures at the base of the wings pale 

 ferruginous; legs pale ferruginous, Avith the coxas and 

 ti-ochanters black. Abdomen smooth and shining, with 

 three, but sometimes four, of the basal segments ferru- 

 ginous. 



Var. B. — The fourth segment more or less red. 



Ichneumon invectus. 

 Female. — Length 5 — 5\ lines. Black ; mandibles fer- 

 ruginous towards their apex, the palpi pale rufo-testaceous. 

 Thorax shining, the mesothorax with a few very fine 

 scattered punctures; the scutellum and post-scutellum 

 ferruginous ; wings folvo-hyaline, the nervures pale fer- 

 ruginous ; the legs fulvo-ferruginous, rather stout, with 

 the coxa? and trochanters black. Abdomen shining, im- 

 punctate, with the two basal segments fulvo-ferruginous ; 

 the base of the petiole black. 



Ichneumon consjnratus. 

 Female. — Length 4.^ lines. Ferruginous, with the apex 

 of the abdomen black. Head : a black or dusky spot on 

 the face on each side of the clypeus ; the antenna? fuscous 

 above. Thorax : two narrow lines on the mesothorax 

 anteriorly; the scutellum, post-scutellum, and two spots on 

 the metathorax, yellow ; the mesothorax and head closely 

 and rather strongly punctured, the metathorax smooth 

 and shining; the wings fulvo-hyaline, their nervures rufo- 



I I 2 



